PRETORIA, September 1 – Power utility Eskom must ensure that all outstanding contracts for independent power producers (IPPs), under the Bid Window 3. 5 and 4 must be ready before end of next month, Energy Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi said on Friday. “After lengthy deliberations, we came to a conclusion on the following actions: that the […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 31 – REBA Chemicals, the Johannesburg-based company, has emerged the overall national winner of the 2017 Business Investment Competition (BIC). Selected by a panel of adjudicators Reba Chemicals’ innovation and business acumen ensured they stood out from 1 202 applications received for this year’s competition. The business, which was created to replace imported […]
CAPE TOWN, August 30 – The Eskom board met on Tuesday, to deliberate on progress in various investigations and disciplinary processes, including disciplinary processes against four senior executives, the power utility said. “Eskom Board met today and deliberated on progress in regard to the various investigations and disciplinary processes underway. The “Technical Review” matter will attract […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 24– The National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM) Women Structure will embark on a national march to the Chamber of Mines, Eskom and South African Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors (Safcec) on Saturday. The NUM Women Structure on Thursday said it will hand over a memorandum of grievances related to transformation and women empowerment at […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 23 – Eskom has been given the green light to make future applications for electricity price adjustments against a number of private companies within the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality in relation to the third multi-year price determination (MYPD3) methodology. This comes after the Constitutional Court on Tuesday dismissed an application by Borbet SA and others […]
PRETORIA, August 19 – Altogether 37,880 households across the country have been connected to the electricity grid between April 1 and June 30, electricity parastatal Eskom said on Saturday. “With 90 percent of South Africa now having access to electricity, Eskom will now put special focus on the three provinces that are lagging behind with […]
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has laid a criminal complaint with the police against former Eskom director, Mark Pamensky. OUTA chief operating officer Ben Theron on Tuesday said the charges related to Pamensky’s conduct while at Eskom and a business ”linked to the Gupta business empire.” ”In his role as non-executive board member of […]
CAPE TOWN, August 13 – City of Cape Town and Eskom officials shared in the joy of close to 800 families in the Klipheuwel informal settlement when electricity to the community was officially switched on Friday, the city said. “A candle or paraffin light is now something of the past as the Klipheuwel community will […]
CAPE TOWN, August 12 – Hundreds of school pupils are presenting their projects to judges at this year’s Eskom Expo for Young Scientists regional science fair in Cape Town, the power utility said on Saturday. “This year’s Eskom Expo boasts 732 entrants – a combination of individual and group projects – across 24 categories from […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 11 – The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) announced on Friday that it had refused Eskom’s request to deviate from meeting certain requirements of the Multi-Year Price Determination (MYPD) methodology which will set electricity prices for 2018. Nersa also declined to grant Eskom condonation for the Minimum Information Requirements for Tariff Application (MIRTA), […]